A new ISP called Hull Fibre has today become the latest internet provider to offer gigabit-capable broadband services to homes via MS3’s wholesale-only Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is currently busy building across parts of Hull and the North of England. But they’ve got some bugs to fix. MS3 already runs an independent Dark Fibre and […]
FCC announces $640 funding for rural broadband deployment
The FCC has announced that over $640 million of funding will be made available through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The investment will be used for new broadband deployments in 26 states and will cover nearly 250…
Mobile Operators in UK Competition Moan vs Apple Private Relay
The Mobile UK trade body, which represents Three UK, EE (BT), O2 (VMO2) and Vodafone, has called upon the Competition and Markets Authority to probe the impact of Apple’s new iCloud linked internet privacy tool – ‘Private Relay‘ – due to concerns over its negative impacts on their network optimisation and filtering measures. According to […]
Mystery ISP Becomes First to Adopt Number Porting Flexibility
The Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator recently revealed that a “major” UK ISP had become the first to adopt the new ‘Right to Port‘ requirement for fixed line phones, which introduces some useful extra flexibility for phone users who want to switch (port) their number between operators. But none of the big players will confirm […]
Nokia rumoured to replace Huawei in Vodafone Idea's network
Back in 2020, buoyed by an international campaign led by then-President Donald Trump, numerous countries around the began to ban Huawei from their telecoms networks to various degrees, citing national security fears. Countries adopting this hard-line approach include the US, UK, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, most of which have plans to phase out any existing Huawei equipment from their networks over the next decade…
Turkey Wealth Fund takes majority stake in Turk Telekom
The TWF was established back in 2016 with the stated goal of increasing the value of state-owned assets in its portfolio. By 2020, it had acquired public shares in 22 companies, including airlines, banks, oil and gas, and satellite companies…
Cellnex and American Towers reportedly eyeing up Deutsche Telekom’s towers
Back in November, Deutsche Telekom’s CEO, Tim Hoettges notably that the company was interested in finding for an industrial partner with which to potentially deconsolidate the company’s tower infrastructure. Both Vodafone and Orange were speculated to be viable options for some kind of partnership, with the former having spun off its own tower infrastructure unit to form Vantage Towers in 2020 and taken the company public in 2021…
Ofcom UK Tweak Geographic Phone Numbering and Local Dialling
Ofcom has today set out their final changes to the rules that govern the use of phone numbers in the UK, which has opted to retain the existing rules on geographic numbering and remove the obligation on telecoms providers and broadband ISPs to provide local dialling to customers. Back in 2019 the regulator moved to […]
Netflix Hikes UK Prices for Internet Video Streaming Service
The most popular broadband-based Movie and TV video streaming service, Netflix, has today announced that they are to hike the monthly prices on all three of their plans for new and existing customers, with even the entry-level ‘Basic‘ plan going up in price for the first time in a decade! In short, ‘Basic‘ will go […]
Scottish Borders Secondary Schools Connected via Gigabit Fibre
Scotland-based UK business ISP Commsworld, under direction from consultancy firm CGI, have recently finished laying 20km of fibre optic cabling to overhaul and upgrade their Borders infrastructure, resiliency and capacity to help connect all of the region’s six secondary schools to gigabit speed broadband. The recent upgrade means that all 6,296 secondary school pupils in […]